🛡️ CVE-2022-40626 — fedora

🟡 CVSS 4.8 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-79 NVD
4.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

An unauthenticated user can create a link with reflected Javascript code inside the backurl parameter and send it to other authenticated users in order to create a fake account with predefined login, password and role in Zabbix Frontend.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-40626 is classified as CWE-79: Cross-site Scripting (XSS). User-supplied data is written into a page without escaping, so attacker script runs in the browser of anyone who views it.

Affected software

CVE-2022-40626 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • fedora
  • zabbix

Timeline and source

Published on 14 September 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

lists.fedoraproject.org
support.zabbix.com
lists.fedoraproject.org
support.zabbix.com

CVE-2022-40626 on other distributions

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Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 4.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-79
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-09-14
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
fedora — —
zabbix — —

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